Xscape
Tonight, one of Kelly's dear friends took me to dinner and a movie in Milton Keynes at Xscape-an enormous construction. It is a giant dome with restaurants, shops, a cinema, and you know, the typical indoor ski slope!
Goree Island
Today was difficult and amazing. Our morning started with fascinating talks about Senegalese culture, education, language, history and politics. I’ll share more on that later. Then, this afternoon, we went to Goree Island. Dakar is the most western point of continental Africa. A short, fifteen minute ferry ride off the coast is a small island. The island is beautiful, colorful, and a UNESCO Heritage Site because of the atrocities that were once committed here. For two hundred years, the small island supported the business of slave-trade to Europe and the Americas. Today, for that reason, it is one of most highly visited sites in the country, while also being a retreat for the wealthy. The island is small, about 1800 residents. We walked around most of the island in a very short afternoon. And yet, for quite some time, this tiny island created unimaginable horrors for millions of people. Enslaved people were brought to this island, and immediately separated from their families, and put ...
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